From the NPR website:
"Calling all avid readers, accomplished writers, or those aspiring to be:
Today we speak to the director of the CityLit festival, Carla Du Pree, about festival highlights and hear about her goals for the event.
Plus, we meet podcaster and blogger Eliza Romero aka Aesthetic Distance, and hear her thoughts on changes to required school reading and decolonizing the literary canon for Asians Americans."
“If you think those running our concentration camps in America will stop with immigrants, you don't know how fascism works.” My guest Jemarc Axinto and I are mad. We’re mad because of all the human rights violations happening at the border while everyone is turning their backs. We’re mad because of the ICE raids. We’re mad that people are more upset that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used the term, “concentration camps” than they are about the actual presence of concentration camps. We’re mad because Fox News reporters are shrugging them off and saying, “these are not our kids.”
The U.S. seems poised to enter war with China, and there’s a huge chance it will be fought in the Philippines. My three guests, Adrian Bonifacio, Jess Rhee, and Mont Jiang discuss what happens when a rising power, in this case China, and an established power, the U.S., collide. We explore how the most crucial theater of war is in the South China/West Philippine Sea, and take a look at the ways the Philippines is caught in the middle of two colonial aggressors.
In early 2018, President Trump said, "Trade wars are good and easy to win." He has since initiated three: a global tariff on steel, a tariff on European autos, and tariffs on Chinese imports, which are the three largest economies in the world. What is a trade war and how does it affect us? Guest Simran Singh discusses with Eliza.
Eliza Romero and guest Oxford Kondo discuss what happens when the fight for greater representation in media goes wrong. Also discussed: Constance Wu’s tweet outburst and the backlash against her, the new Hiroshima movie based on Sadako Sasaki’s story, the latest Chadwick Boseman samurai movie, and why demanding inclusion in shows like Game of Thrones reveals a lack of critical thinking about race.
Eliza and her friend Kuya Andre, a Filipino American political activist who has attended several anti-fascist actions, discuss how modern Antifa came to be in the US, the creeping rise of global fascism, why Antifa gets such a bad rap in the media, and why Andy Ngo's claims were inaccurate at best. Kuya Andre also shares his experience as a medic at the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally in 2017.